Skins is Dish's Fault?

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So zombie topic did have one interesting item I was reading:

Posted Sat January 22, 2011 5:56 am
17 replies, Last Updated: Tue January 25, 2011 1:07 am

what is wrong with you people? cancelling a quality show like Medium and putting up child porn shows like Skins? Medium was well-written, well-acted, and consistently enjoyable while realistically portraying a loving family with dimensional challenges. so why not throw that out the window because it can't compete against American Idol

http://www.planetfeedback.com/index.php?level2=blog_viewpost&topic_id=328859

So it's now DISH's fault that MTV airs Skins? Relevant, maybe not. But funny, absolutely!
 
As you guys might know I run DISHsupport.COM for DISH Network. And as part of running the site I get the sites support email which is supposed to be used only for DISHsupport.COM issues.

Some of the emails I get are FUNNY. People upset because the movie they were watching said "ass" before 8pm and blaming DISH Network for it. Other times I get script suggestions for their show and insist that DISH Network use their script to make their program more interesting. Even had a few demading that (insert news anchor name here) be removed from (insert news channel here) because that person does not view the customers own political views. (Like DISH has anything to do with which anchors work for which station.

Some people dont get that DISH just passes along what is sent to them. If you don't like it then change the channel...it's that simple :D
 
Type in DISH Network in the search, it comes up as the first hit. *shrug*

Word Find (ctrl+f5) of the page you linked shows nothing, in either Firefox or IE. Plus I read it about three times.
 
Skins is awful!!
I can't say its kiddie porn as some have suggested, but it is just a downright awful show.
All it made me feel was pissed at how stupid and weak those parents are and how obnoxious and disrespectful the teens are.
If my kids would have still been living at home, I would have pulled out the belt and beat them just to make myself feel better.

It may be real life situations in some places, but not in this house. First time one of my kids tried to imitate those punks, they would have gotten in a whole lotta pain.

Hopefully the show won't be on that long, advertisers are bailing like rats from a sinking ship.

Dish isn't responsible for skins.
Direct TV is!!!! and comcast!!!
 
People are still bitching about content on MTV? Holy 1980s, Batman!

The local 1980s whiners actually got my cable company to dump MTV for a while. The company used the excuse that there was a terrestrial interference problem from a phone company relay tower on a high mountain underneath the satellite location. Well, there really WAS a TI problem, but MTV wasn't the only channel on that satellite and I saw quite a few sparkles on the rest of them.
 
MTV...what's that?
I know they changed their name a couple years ago but isnt it that channel that shows all those trashy teen shows?
 
Iceberg said:
MTV...what's that?
I know they changed their name a couple years ago but isnt it that channel that shows all those trashy teen shows?

MTV.... Miscellaneous Television. LOL.
MTV has been garbage for many years now. It was cool when it showed music videos all the time.
 
Actually, the original UK version was actually pretty good and very popular in the UK (it aired on BBC America to good ratings). Even the sad MTV rip-off (the UK producers involved) was better than I had expected. The big difference is that in the UK, the age of consent is 16, and so while the UK version was racy and controversial for some of the same reasons in the UK, it involved teens who had a legal right to engage in consensual sexual activity as adults would and the fact that late teens have enhanced rights short of full adult rights in the UK, unlike the US where one is still legally one class of minor or still a "child" right up to 17 years and 364 days. Here in the U.S. the MTV version does seem a bit like slime in the context of our mostly 18 years of age for consent (some states 16, I believe), and the MTV version seems much more defiant of adult authority than the UK version.

I think the problem with Skins USA version is that it is on the wrong channel. MTV's core audience is 13 year old girls and Skins really is inappropriate for that audience. Hilarious that MTV airs the warning of "Adult Content" when they know their demographic are "tweeners", mostly girls, far from the TVMA rated Skins age appropriate level. If the show were on another channel with a more adult demographic, this would not be news. But my word, I have seen worse on The Real World with it's far more callus vapid sexual exploits and verbal and physical abuse and violence aired as a template to the mostly 13 year old girl audience who dominate the MTV ratings.

All that said, parents should do what I did whenever my nieces came to visit and watched TV: Lock out MTV. They didn't like it at all, but too bad. Involving the government is rarely a good idea, especially today when we have the technology to lock out any programming or channel we find inappropriate for our kiddies.
 
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Actually, the original UK version was actually pretty good and very popular in the UK (it aired on BBC America to good ratings). Even the sad MTV rip-off (the UK producers involved) was better than I had expected. The big difference is that in the UK, the age of consent is 16, and so while the UK version was racy and controversial for some of the same reasons in the UK, it involved teens who had a legal right to engage in consensual sexual activity as adults would and the fact that late teens have enhanced rights short of full adult rights in the UK, unlike the US where one is still legally one class of minor or still a "child" right up to 17 years and 364 days. Here in the U.S. the MTV version does seem a bit like slime in the context of our mostly 18 years of age for consent (some states 16, I believe), and the MTV version seems much more defiant of adult authority than the UK version.

I think the problem with Skins USA version is that it is on the wrong channel. MTV's core audience is 13 year old girls and Skins really is inappropriate for that audience. Hilarious that MTV airs the warning of "Adult Content" when they know their demographic are "tweeners", mostly girls, far from the TVMA rated Skins age appropriate level. If the show were on another channel with a more adult demographic, this would not be news. But my word, I have seen worse on The Real World with it's far more callus vapid sexual exploits and verbal and physical abuse and violence aired as a template to the mostly 13 year old girl audience who dominate the MTV ratings.

All that said, parents should do what I did whenever my nieces came to visit and watched TV: Lock out MTV. They didn't like it at all, but too bad. Involving the government is rarely a good idea, especially today when we have the technology to lock out any programming or channel we find inappropriate for our kiddies.

I think the problem is the PTC is a backward reactionary bunch busy bodies. When the TV industry wants to Poo Poo them about something they do. If the media right now is just picking up on the "scandal" factor. The fact that MTV is at least showing later some respect in that they are running it during the time that is considered adult prime time. This controversy just show the difference tween the attitude that Europe has and the "Puritan" attitude that still exist here.
 
So zombie topic did have one interesting item I was reading:

Posted Sat January 22, 2011 5:56 am
17 replies, Last Updated: Tue January 25, 2011 1:07 am

what is wrong with you people? cancelling a quality show like Medium and putting up child porn shows like Skins? Medium was well-written, well-acted, and consistently enjoyable while realistically portraying a loving family with dimensional challenges. so why not throw that out the window because it can't compete against American Idol
http://www.planetfeedback.com/index.php?level2=blog_viewpost&topic_id=328859

So it's now DISH's fault that MTV airs Skins? Relevant, maybe not. But funny, absolutely!

The funny bit here isn't complaining about Skins being aired, but claiming that Medium was well-written.
A show with characters that have absolutely zero arc whose interactions almost sound like a customer support script is not in my opinion a well-written show.
 
The funny bit here isn't complaining about Skins being aired, but claiming that Medium was well-written.
A show with characters that have absolutely zero arc whose interactions almost sound like a customer support script is not in my opinion a well-written show.

I stopped watching medium even before it left CBS. Just another BS talking to the dead weak plodding show as far as I was concerned. I knew a few people that watched it. They we as dedicated to it as Sci-Fi people are to Doctor Who.
 

Dish Coverage.

HDMI splitters??

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